What shipbuilding crisis?
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The US shipbuilding budget declined from $11.5 billion in 1991 outlays to $.6.5 billion in 2000, but spending on ship construction is back to $10 billion level in 2006, and the Navy is building new generations submarines, supply ships and expeditionary warfare vessels. The Navy's latest 30-year shipbuilding plan calls for significantly increasing the number of ships in the US fleet from the current 281 ships to 315 by 2012 and 330 by 2018.
Publication Name: Armed Forces Journal
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 1559-162X
Year: 2006
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FY 2000 Defense Appropriations Act overview
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The $268 billion FY 2000 Defense Appropriations bill was signed into law by President Clinton, reversing years of decline in defense spending. The law includes what is claimed to be the largest percentage increase in military compensation (4.8%) in over a generation. The law also appropriates funding for all critical defense programs and provides full funding for training, spare parts, equipment maintenance and base operations.
Publication Name: Marine Corps Gazette
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0025-3170
Year: 1999
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Commercial spacefarers
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Commercial communication satellites numbering 1,017 and valued at $50 bil would be launched in the next decade, as predicted by Fairfax, VA-based consulting company Teal Group. The Defense Information Systems Agency, US Space Command and virtually all the services are monitoring the commercial aspect of the space business because they believe it poses major effects both for actual use and for military strategy.
Publication Name: Air Force Magazine
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0730-6784
Year: 1998
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